The Best American Travel Writing 2016
Bill Bryson, Jason WilsonEdited by travel writer Bryson, this is a smorgasbord of different voices weighing in on such varied topics as the vanishing areas of solid ice in Greenland and its effect on the Inuit hunters, the rapidly increasing popularity of plastic surgery in South Korea, a film festival in secretive North Korea, and the nuclear power plant failure at Fukushima. Each writer brings his or her passions and opinions to the subject they have travelled to study and while some pieces may appeal more than others, there is something for everyone in this compilation.
The Best American Travel Writing 2016 includes Michael Chabon, Alice Gregory, Paul Theroux, Dave Eggers, Helen Macdonald, Sara Corbett, Stephanie Pearson,Thomas Chatterton Williams, Pico Iyer, and others.
Bill Bryson, guest editor, is the best-selling author of A Walk in the Woods; A Short History of Nearly Everything; One Summer: America, 1927; The Road to Little Dribbling; and numerous other books.
Jason Wilson, series editor, is the author of Boozehound: On the Trail of the Rare, the Obscure, and the Overrated in Spirits and the digital wine series Planet of the Grapes. He has written for the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the Philadelphia Daily News, and many other publications. He is the founding editor of The Smart Set and Table Matters.